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Monday - Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm
CB 4026 Phone (807) 343-8460
Fax (807) 346-7796
  Thinker
Dr. Lada Malek

 
 
 
 
Lada Malek
Professor
HBSc, MSc University of Calgary, Calgary AB
PhD University of Alberta, Edmonton AB

Contact

Email    lada.malek@lakeheadu.ca
Fax      807-346-7796
Office   CB4050  807-343-8709
Lab       CB3008  807-343-8462
 
 
 

Courses

 

Biology 2230

Cell Biology 
 

course material

Biology 2910

Laboratory Biology 
 

course material
 

Plants and People
 
 
Alpine Plant Physiology 
 
Issues in Biotechnology 
 

Research Interests

 

Plant protein degrading enzymes - in specific reference to seed germination and degradation of insect proteins in insectivorous plants.  Biology of alpine plant species of the Canadian Rocky Mountains - plant nutrition, seed development, germination and seedling establishment, environmental stress tolerance.

   
   

Selected Publications

 

Moriyasu, Y. and Malek, L.  2004.  Purification and characterization of the 2OS proteasome from alga Chara corallina (Charophyceae).  J. Phycol.  40: 333-340.
 

Krol, M., Hurry, V.M., Maxwell, D.P., Malek, L., Ivanov, A.G., and Huner, N.P.A.  2002.  Low growth temperature inhibition of photsynthesis in cotyledons of jack pine seedlings (Pinus banksiana) is due to impaired chloroplast development.  Can. J. Bot.  80: 1042-1051.

 

Basset, G., Raymond, P., Malek, L., and Brouquisse, R.  2002.  Changes in the expression and the enzymic properties of the 20s proteasome in sugar starved maize roots.  Plant Physiology.  128:  1149-1162.

 

Ligr, M., and Malek, L.  1997.  Ubiquitin metabolism following cold-shock in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.  Physiol. Plantarum.  101: 865-871.

 

Agustini, V., McIntosh, T., and Malek, L.  1996.  Ubiquitination and ATP metabolism in garden pea seeds.  Physiol. Plantarum.  97: 463-468.

 

 
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